The 40-plus sunflower fields planted each year by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources have always been intended for doves and hunters. But they have recently become a more widespread attraction ...

Dove hunting is one of the most popular wingshooting sports in the U.S. Each season 1 million hunters spend 3 million days afield to shoot between 15 and 20 million mourning doves, according to U.S.

In 2023, the Hagen History Center planted its first batch of sunflowers in a two-acre plot behind the Battles Estate in ...

I could ask the other hunters to join me, or yell at them. Instead, I choose a strategic retreat and leave. About 10 A.M. I’m back. There’s no one around—only piles of empties and makeshift blinds to ...

COLEMAN — “It doesn’t rain for 60 days and then it pours,” lamented Dusty Greaves, Coleman County rancher and hunting outfitter, 15 hours before last Monday’s dove season opener. Greaves had spent ...

On Sunday’s cool afternoon, weeks after most Kansas hunters had given up on dove hunting, Brian Natalini and two buddies shot limits of the birds and were out of the field by about 6 p.m.Brian ...

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